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...Groucho Clears...
...your March 4 issue, you reported . . . that Sam Marx is no relation to Karl, Groucho, Harpo, Chico or Zeppo. You may be right about Karl, but I have it on good authority from my father (Groucho) that he and his four brothers (you left out Gummo) are Sam's second cousins. Up until now tht Marx family has declined to release this valuable information, because: 1) Sam is very touchy on the subject and likes people to think he comes from an austere, strait-laced family; and 2) the Marx Brothers don't want it to get around...
...relation to Karl, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo...
...Burrows is a wit's wit, a clown's clown. The late Robert Benchley called him "the greatest satirist" in the U.S. The men who make the public laugh-Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Jack Benny-split their sides laughing when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy...
...Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and--this'll kill ya-Zeppo) are some of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on twelve wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago they started pounding off the drivel on the celluloid reels, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, mentioned above, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...